NFS under ultrix 4.2

[Chris Siebenmann]

trost at reed.edu writes:
| Does anyone know if 4.2 has fixed the "getwd: can't open .." problem?

 Although I don't know if it's the same problem, I had this happen
locally with some users, and managed to track down the problem (and fix
it). We had two file systems, /foo and /foo/bar, and some users were
getting the "can't open .." when they cd'd to /a/b or anything
underneath. After some poking around, I discovered that the /foo/bar
directory on /foo was mode 750 (although the root of the /foo/bar
filesystem was mode 755) and the users that were getting the error
weren't in the group of the directory.  Chmodding the /foo/bar
directory to mode 755 and remounting stuff fixed the problem.

 Isn't NFS fun.

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	"NFS should be viewed as a superior replacement for FTP, not
	 as a real network-wide Unix filesystem."
		- Henry Spencer
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